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Eccentricity and v2 in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

Eccentricity and v2 in proton-proton collisions at the LHC. Yoshitaka Hatta (U. Tsukuba). in collaboration with. E. Avsar, C. Flensburg, J.-Y. Ollitrault, T. Ueda. arXiv:1009.5643 [hep-ph]. TexPoint fonts used in EMF. Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box.: A A A A A.

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Eccentricity and v2 in proton-proton collisions at the LHC

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  1. Eccentricity and v2 in proton-proton collisions at the LHC Yoshitaka Hatta (U. Tsukuba) in collaboration with E. Avsar, C. Flensburg, J.-Y. Ollitrault, T. Ueda arXiv:1009.5643 [hep-ph] TexPoint fonts used in EMF. Read the TexPoint manual before you delete this box.: AAAAA

  2. Contents • High-multiplicity events at the LHC • Flow in pp? • DIPSY • Eccentricity and v2 in pp

  3. High-multiplicity pp events at the LHC

  4. Like an AA collision ! CMS PHOBOS high multiplicity pp 7TeV comparable to ~18 nucleon pairs, each colliding at 62.4GeV in CuCu pT>0.1GeV/c h -2 +2 Phenomena usually discussed in the context of nucleus collisions may be observed in proton collisions !

  5. Ridge in pp CMS Collaboration, arXiv:1009.4122 near-side, long-range rapidity correlation First unexpected result from the LHC ! Possible collective effects in pp?

  6. Elliptic flow in pp Toy models : Woods-Saxon, Glauber, Hard Sphere, Gaussian…. Luzum,Romatschke 0901.4588 Prasad, Roy, Chattopadhyay 0910.4844 d’Enterria, et al. 0910.3029 Bozek 0911.2392 Ortona, Denicol, Mota, Kodama, 0911.5158 Bautista, Cunqueiro, de Deus, Pajares 0905.3058 Pierog, Porteboeuf, Karpenko, Werner, 1005.4526 Casalderrey-Solana, Wiedemann 0911.4400 Parton + flux tube model Hot spot model Proton’s transverse structure is either predeterminedor random.

  7. Participant eccentricity Event plane may be different from the reaction plane. Can be nonzero even at vanishing impact parameter due to fluctuations. Important because high-multiplicity events mostly come from central collisions. AA  fluctuation of nucleons pp  fluctuation of small-x gluons

  8. QCD dipole model Mueller (1994~) Coordinate space formulation of the BFKL equation Very strong fluctuation in the gluon multiplicity Salam (1995) Very strong correlation in impact parameter space YH, Mueller (2007) Avsar, YH (2008) These correlations are important to study correlations observables

  9. Gluon number fluctuation Probability distribution of the number of gluons in the dipole model Salam (1995)

  10. DIPSY Full-fledged Monte Carlo event generator for pp based on the dipole model. Flensburg, Gustafson, Lonnblad,arXiv:1103.4321 extension of Avsar, Gustafson, Lonnblad (2005~) Featuring: BFKL Running coupling (NLO) Energy conservation ( ) Saturation effects Confinement effects Multiple scattering, Underlying events, Parton shower (ARIADNE) Hadronization (Pythia) Energy dependence is a prediction. No ad hoc retuning of parameters at different energies.

  11. Some sample results from DIPSY @7TeV

  12. Deconstructing high-multiplicity events High-multiplicity pp events = Upward fluctuation in the gluon number in proton’s w.f. + Multiple (more than 10) parton-parton interactions

  13. Eccentricity in pp at 7 TeV Shape of the area occupied by the “liberated” gluons.

  14. Comparison with Pb-Pb Figure by Luzum Comparable to a 30% central Pb-Pb collision

  15. Nature of eccentricity in pp Conventional definition of the eccentricity at fixed b is negative ! y x Nominal “overlapping region” is a poor guide in pp.

  16. Empirical relation between the eccentricity and v2. Drescher et al. (2007) taking care of incomplete equilibration …and a similar relation between and In order to obtain large v2, a single event has to be both elliptic in shape and have high density.

  17. Elliptic flow at 7 TeV ~ 6% comparable to AA at LHC, RHIC Aamodt et al, PRL105,252302

  18. ALICE data for Bilandzic, talk at QCHS IX “flow” “nonflow” in AA ALICE preliminary Large nonflow contribution due mostly to jets. dominate over the flow contribution….

  19. ALICE data for Bilandzic, talk at QCHS IX negative in the data and in MCs ALICE preliminary ALICE preliminary positive from DIPSY Sign change at large Nch  Possible signature of flow.

  20. Conclusions • DIPSY can simulate high-multiplicity pp events including proper QCD dynamics in the transverse plane. • Eccentricity is 30%, comparable to semi-central Pb collisions. • Challenging to distinguish from non-flow correlations. Sign change of (v2{4})^4 can be a signature.

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